Often, to get that look you like, you’ll use more than one filter. And while there is a way to save favorite filters in FCP, it only saves one. CaptMench demonstrates a way to save that look, and make applying it to another clip extremely easy.

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Films like Sin City have made the Pleasantville effect even more popular. Having one color pop with everything else black and white, is eye catching and looks great. CaptMench shows you how in this video tutorial. It’s a bit outdated, so I would encourage you to take the concepts, but use the 3 way Color Corrector instead of the Color Corrector.

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If it hasn’t happened to you yet, I promise you: it will. You go out and shoot a couple of tapes, and when you digitize it, you find that some of the tapes are anamorphic, and some aren’t. Or maybe you’re using 4:3 stock footage in a 16:9 timeline. CaptMench has some tricks on dealing with this problem and gives you some options on what to do.

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Sure, you can use Motion or After Effects to do compositing work, but when you want a quick and easy solution, you can do a lot of compositing in Final Cut using masks and mattes. Talented Pixie has this video tutorial on how to do some more complicated compositing.

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Time remap is an incredibly intimidating tool, but once you get the hang of it, incredibly useful and makes some kind of sense. To quote CaptMench in this tutorial, “It’s a lot easier than I once thought.” Learn how to use the time remap in the Viewer.

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Cutting to the beat is important in music-driven edits. CaptMench shares his technique for doing this quickly, using matte colors, a couple shortcuts and replace edit. You’ll definitely speed up with this technique.

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Sure, it may be a breeze to make this in Photoshop- but not everyone has Photoshop. This tutorial from CaptMench shows you how to make a gunsight completely in Final Cut using techniques that are helpful in other kinds of effects.

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